As no evidence is provided for the surmise, we can
conclude that this report on an unresolved event that happened a decade ago is
part of the lies being used by the West to demonize Putin, just as the lies
about MH-17 and “the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

Western governments and media have covered up his
crimes and praise him as a great humanitarian who has healed Rwanda and is
totally supported by the people. The truth is that Kagame has proved himself a
worse totalitarian that Hitler, Stalin, and Poll Pot combined. He has turned
Rwanda into a fear-ridden psychological prison. Anjan Sundaram, a journalist
who ran a journalism training school in Rwanda, describes in detail Kagame’s
destruction of all truth and all independent thought in Rwanda. In his just
published book by Doubleday, Bad News: Last Journalists In A
Dictatorship, Sundaram gives the gruesome details of how Rwandans, with the
complicity of the West, have been brought more psychologically under control
than Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984.

Kagame used murder, fear, and bribes and purges of his
own supporters in order to eliminate all expression of independent thought in
Rwanda. Indeed, in Rwanda the individual has disappeared. People have been
merged into the state. Sundaram reports his conversation with a Rwandan who is
being reconstructed along the lines of Winston Smith. This person tells
Sundaram: “In this kind of country we don’t know where the state ends and where
we begin. And if I don’t know where I begin I’m worth nothing. I don’t have any
rights. We are not individuals, we are agents of the state.”

None of the totalitarianisms that the West ranted
against during the 20th century ever got this far. There was resistance
everywhere. Hitler’s own top generals plotted against him. In the Soviet Union
and Mao’s China, there were dissidents, including highly placed members of the
Communist Party. But in Rwanda even the concept of opposition has been erased.

Reading Bad News brings to mind
parallels to the US. In Rwanda sentences result not from law but from “the word
of authority. Simple words had attained such power.” This reminds us of simple
words from the US president that result in indefinite detention and
assassination of US citizens without trials and conviction. The subservience of
Western journalism has been obtained by the state similar to the suppression of
independent journalism in Rwanda. Bribes are used, both monetary and access. Fear
of being fired and rendered unemployable as a journalist is used. Occasionally,
perhaps even murder is used as in the unresolved case of the US journalist
whose car suddenly accelerated and crashed at high speed. Other American
journalists have been threatened with prison sentences.